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Key References

Hume, D.A., Whitelaw, C.B.A. and Archibald, A.L., 2011. The future of animal production – improving productivity and sustainability. The Journal of Agricultural Science 149, 9-16.

Ait-Ali, T., Wilson, A.D., Carre, W., Westcott, D.G., Frossard, J.-P., Mellencamp, M.A., Mouzaki, D., Matika, O., Waddington, D., Drew, T.W., Bishop, S.C. and Archibald, A.L., 2011. Host inhibits replication of European porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus in macrophages by altering differential regulation of type-I interferon transcriptional response. Immunogenetics 63, 437-448.

Archibald, A.L., Bolund, L., Churcher, C., Fredholm, M., Groenen, M.A.M., Harlizius, B., Lee, K.-T., Milan, D., Rogers, J., Rothschild, M.F., Uenishi, H., Wang, J. and Schook, L.B. for the Swine Genome Sequencing Consortium, 2010. Pig genome sequence – analysis and publication strategy. BMC Genomics 11: 438. www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/11/438

The International Sheep Genomics Consortium, Archibald, A.L., Cockett, N.E., Dalrymple, B.P., Faraut, T., Kijas, J.W., Maddox, J.F., McEwan, J.C., Oddy, V.H., Raadsma, H.W., Wade, C., Wang, L., Wang, W. and Xun, X., 2010. The sheep genome reference sequence: a work in progress. Animal Genetics 41, 441-453. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2052.2010.02100.x/abstract

Ramos, A.M., Crooijmans, R.P.M.A., Affara, N.A., Amaral, A.J., Archibald, A.L., Beever, J.E., Bendixen, C., Churcher, C., Clark, R., Dehais, P., Hansen, M.S., Hedegaard, J., Hu, Z.-L., Kerstens, H.H., Law, A.S., Megens, H.J., Milan, D., Nonneman, D.J., Rohrer, G.A., Rothschild, M.F., Smith, T.P.L., Schnabel, R.D., Van Tassell, C.P., Taylor, J.F., Wiedmann, R.T., Schook, L.B. and Groenen, M.A.M., 2009. Design of a high density SNP genotyping assay in the pig using SNPs identified and characterized by next generation sequencing technology. PLoS ONE 4 (8): e6524. www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0006524

Humphray SJ, Scott CE, Clark R, Marron B, Plumb R, Bender C, Camm N, Davis J, Jenks A, Noon A, Patel M, Sehra H, Yang F, Rogatcheva MB, Milan D, Chardon P, Rohrer G, Nonneman D, de Jong P, Meyers SN, Archibald A, Beever JE, Schook LB, Rogers J, 2007. A high utility integrated map of the pig genome. Genome Biology 8:R139doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-7 r139 genomebiology.com/content/8/7/R139

Ait-Ali T, Wilson AD, Westcott DG, Clapperton M, Waterfall M, Mellencamp MA, Drew TW, Bishop SC, Archibald AL, 2007. Innate immune responses to replication of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus in swine alveolar macrophages. Viral Immmunology 20, 105-118. www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/vim.2006.0078

Lee GJ, Archibald AL, Law AS, Lloyd S, Wood J, Haley CS, 2005. Detection of quantitative trait loci for androstenone, skatole and boar taint in a cross between Large White and Meishan pigs. Animal Genetics 36, 14-22. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2052.2004.01214.x/abstract

King AH, Jiang Z, Gibson JP, Haley CS, Archibald AL, 2003. Mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting female reproductive traits on porcine chromosome 8. Biology of Reproduction 68, 2172-2179. www.biolreprod.org/content/68/6/2172.long